Filling space

As loyal reader Larry first pointed out in his comments to last week’s post, it appears a shoe repair shop will be coming to fill the vacant space at the corner of East Cherry and Main streets.

Buddy Michelman, who owns the building that houses about four storefronts along East Cherry Street, said in a telephone interview last week that the shoe repair shop should be active within the next week or so. As for the other retail spaces he owns, there isn’t much on the horizon.

As for other spaces downtown, in case you haven’t noticed, Rahway Cafe and Stage is not in the former Woolworth space on Main Street as planned last summer. Instead, The Gilded Lillie is moving from Poplar Street and combining with the auction house formerly in the Robinson Building, with plans on a two-year lease for about 8,000 square feet, according to listing agent Matt Dobrowolski.